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Leveraged Pendle PTs: Leveraged Fixed Income

Pendle Finance has established itself as a prominent fixed-yield protocol with over $4 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) and $10 billion in total trading volume. Pendle Finance brings fixed yields to users through tokenised yield trading. While fixed yields offer users a steady source of known returns, leveraging them

Leveraged RWAs: Sky on Gearbox

Boasting $13B in TVL, 600K+ users and 8.5% APYs, Sky assets are now live on Gearbox. Sky, previously Maker, is one of the most iconic DeFi rebrands. Maker's leveraged sDAI has been one of the most consistent strategies on Gearbox, generating double digit stablecoin yields. Like Maker,

Renzo: ezpz loans

Imagine you have a valuable watch collection, but there's a yacht you want to buy. Instead of selling your watches for the yacht, you convince a watch dealer to loan you money against your collection. You then leave your watches with the lender until you return the money.

Gauges: Democratising Borrow Rates

This week saw the rise of macroeconomic experts across CT. Will Powell cut rates by 25 BPS? Or by 50 BPS? CT waited with bated breath to know how the Fed would affect our internet coins. While the build-up to the event was fascinating, it also outlined the importance of

Leveraged Lombard: Unlock BTC Yields

Through a decade of apprehensions, boating accidents, and laser-eyed belief, BTC has now become a $1 Trillion asset. While BTC is still on course to cement its status as a global store of value, the asset's market size creates significant opportunities— opportunities for BTC to become productive and

The State of DeFi Lending and Gearbox DAO Self-Evaluation

Dearest Gentle Reader, Gearbox Protocol and Gearbox DAO are nearing 3 years of being live. This journey has come with many re-evaluations, security improvements, and product iterations. Understanding the past and the present is vital to make sure one chooses an informed path forward - and that’s the goal

Multicollateral Loans: Flexible Borrowing

Imagine you have a valuable watch collection, but there's a yacht you want to buy. Instead of selling your watches for the yacht, you convince a watch dealer to loan you money against your watch collection. You then leave your watches with the lender until you return the

Hello, Mellow: Symbiotic LRT Vaults

Over the year, restaking has grown sizeably. With its ability to extend Ethereum's security to different systems, restaking has grown in TVL and mindshare, sparking discussions. These discussions have ranged from how high yields are generated through restaking to the potential additional risks induced by it. Risk management

Kelp on Arbitrum: 3X the rewards

Kelp DAO has grown to become one of the largest LRTs with $600M+ in TVL. A noteworthy source of growth for Kelp's rsETH has been the introduction of Kelp Miles. Miles are a mechanism to reward loyal users with a potential future token. Leverage, thus, enables users to

10X the ezFriendly Leverage

With the passing of GIP-143, Gearbox DAO approved increasing the LTV(Liquidation Threshold Value) for ezETH, bringing the maximum possible leverage to 10X. The change in the LTV was voted on based on improved fundamental specifications for ezETH, which make Friendly Leverage on ezETH a possibility. Friendly leverage enables users

ARB and GEAR rewards: STIMMIES 💸

At Gearbox DAO, our aim is to be the leading onchain prime brokerage for the whole DeFi space. Our V3's modular architecture makes adding leverage opportunities faster and safer than ever. But to achieve broader adoption, providing these opportunities at scale is critical. Scaling on ETH mainnet only,

Gearbox crvUSD Pool: Llama LM

New day and we already have the Llama's making it a GM with a special CRV boosted LM for the crvUSD pool. The crvUSD pool is now the 5th stablecoin pool to go live on Gearbox's lending market. The pool aims at giving lenders more choice

How may I Kelp you? 3X Friendly Miles

Points have been one of the most profitable opportunity in 2024. Leveraged points have further gone on to produce over $30M worth of incentives for Gearbox users. This value creation has led to a demand surge for LRTs. So how do Kelp and Gearbox intend to fulfil your demands and

Friendly Leverage: Points S2

Points farming has had its fair share of roller-coaster-emotion moments. From EL points 10Xing on whales to depegs to massive airdrops in a short period. Over the last 2 months, points have made us euphoric and depressed within a span of days. While we can't control what happens